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Nature Quotes - Page 37

We're in a giant car heading towards a brick wall and everyone's arguing over where they're going to sit.

"Green giants: the eco power list" by Lucy Siegle, www.theguardian.com. January 15, 2011.

We are the living links in a life force that moves and plays around and through us, binding the deepest soils with the farthest stars.

Alan Chadwick (2008). “Performance in the Garden: A Collection of Talks on Biodynamic French Intensive Horticulture”, Logosophia

The conscious purpose of science is control of Nature; its unconscious effect is disruption and chaos.

William Irwin Thompson (1987). “Gaia, a Way of Knowing: Political Implications of the New Biology”, Inner Traditions International

The groves were God's first temples.

William Cullen Bryant, Thomas G. Voss (1975). “The Letters of William Cullen Bryant: 1865-1871”, p.49, Fordham Univ Press

I love spring anywhere, but if I could choose I would always greet in a garden.

Ruth Stout (1987). “How to Have a Green Thumb Without an Aching Back: A New Method of Mulch Gardening”, Fireside

I never saw a discontented tree. They grip the ground as though they liked it, and though fast rooted they travel about as far as we do.

John Muir, Edwin Way Teale, Henry Bugbee Kane (2001). “The Wilderness World of John Muir”, p.315, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

The most mighty of nature's laws is this, that out of Death she brings Life.

Herman Melville (1971). “Pierre, Or The Ambiguities: Volume Seven, Scholarly Edition”, p.9, Northwestern University Press